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Period: Early 20th Century
Erotic Scene - Héliogravure by Micheal Von Zichy - 1911
Located in Roma, IT
Erotic scene is an original Héliogravure artwork on ivory-colored paper, realized by Micheal Von Zichy in 1911. Printed in only 300 copies, Leipzig; Privatdruck, from the Catalogue "Liebe" (Dear), Text in German on the plate, The drawing created unusually bold erotic subjects through deft strokes.
Good conditions.
Mihály Zichy...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Engraving
$665 Sale Price
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LUXIOR Automobile early automotive original vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
LUXIOR. Original antique French turn of the century rare antique automobile poster. Printer / atelier:: Henri Privat Livemont. Size: 15.75" ...
Category
Art Nouveau Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,036 Sale Price
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H.O. Miethke Das Werk folio "Water Snakes II" collotype print
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Water Snakes II, no. 9 from the fourth installment of Das Werk Gustav Klimts
The last painting Klimt exhibited with the Secession before resigning, Water ...
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Vienna Secession Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper
Hanover Schmiedestrasse
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Hanover Schmiedestrasse" 1920 is an original color etching by Austrian artist Luigi Kasimir 1881-1962. It is hand signed in pencil by the artist at the lower cen...
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Realist Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Liebespaar I - Etching and Drypoint by Max Beckmann - 1916
By Max Beckmann
Located in Roma, IT
Etching and drypoint. Signed and dated in pencil.
Extremely rare artist's proof, II state on 2 A/C variant, before the editions Marées-Gesellschaft R. Piper & C. Printed in 1919 by ...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
$7,899 Sale Price
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Nijinsky in Cleopatre.
Located in London, GB
BARBIER, George.
Nijinsky in Cleopatre.
London, C. W. Beaumont, 1913.
‘The designs, although somewhat fantastic in treatment, do convey the impression produced by Nijinsky in hi...
Category
Art Nouveau Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Two Girls with a Dog - Stone Lithograph - Mourlot, 1928
Located in Paris, IDF
Marie LAURENCIN
Two Girls with a Dog (1928)
Stone Lithograph
Printed in Atelier Mourlot
Printed signature in the plate
On China paper 42 x 31 cm (c. 17 x 12")
Excellent condition
Category
Realist Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Alphonse Mucha Sarah Bernhardt Lefèvre-Utile 1903
Located in Dallas, TX
Mucha, Alfons Maria 1860 - 1939
Lefevre-Utile - Sarah Bernhardt
Lithograph 1903
Dimensions: 27.5 x 20 in. (70 x 51 cm)
Framed: 28 x 35.5 Inches
Printe...
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Art Nouveau Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper
Lait pur de la Vingeanne (Pure Milk from Vingeanne), Lithographic poster.
Located in La Canada Flintridge, CA
It is framed with black moulding all around.
Era: Late 19th to early 20th century, often categorized under the Art Nouveau movement. The poster litho size is 36"x24", print informat...
Category
Art Nouveau Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Cortland Street
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching with drypoint on antique handmade laid Japon paper, 12 7/8 x 7 1/2 (327 x 191 mm); sheet 15 5/16 x 10 7/16 (389 x 265 mm), full margins. Signed in pencil in the lower margin....
Category
American Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Monsieur Le Major - Lithograph by Hermann Paul - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Monsieur Le Major is a vintage Lithograph realized by Hermann Paul from the series " La Grande Guerre Par Les Artistes"
Good condition on a yellowed cardboard.
Signed and titled on...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Original
The U. S. Marines Want You
vintage military recruiting poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original vintage poster: The U.S. Marines Want You. This military vintage poster is archival linen-backed and in fine condition, ready to frame. There is no date, artist, or printer'...
Category
American Realist Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Maenad in Frenzy, British Museum Roman Classical sculpture photogravure
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Maenad in Frenzy'
Photogravure from a collection of photogravures depicting Greek and Roman marbles and bronzes in the British museum. Plate number above top right corner of the im...
Category
Other Art Style Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Photogravure
Building a Babylon, Tudor City, NY.
By Martin Lewis
Located in Storrs, CT
McCarron 76. 12 7/8 x 7 7/8 (sheet 16 5/8 x 12 1/4). 6th trial proof (McCarron records 84 impressions including 4 trial proofs). Illustrated L'Amérique de la Dépression: Artistes En...
Category
American Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
$11,000 Sale Price
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Portrait de Jean Desbordes - Lithograph by Jean Cocteau - 1929
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Roma, IT
Jean Cocteau, Portrait de Jean Desbordes is a Lithograph on vélin pur fil des Papeteries du Marais, realized by Cocteau in 1929.
Belongs to the suite "25 Dessins d'Un Dormeur", publ...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Francois Auguste Rene Rodin, Untitled, from Twelve Watercolors, 1920 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Francois Auguste Rene Rodin (1840–1917), titled Sans titre (Untitled), from the folio Douze aquarelles de Auguste Rodin (Twelve Watercolors by Auguste...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
$1,756 Sale Price
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La Garçonne
Located in OPOLE, PL
Kees Van Dongen (1877-1968) - La Garçonne
Original Lithograph, pochoir from 1925.
Arches paper (no watermark).
Dimensions of work: 23.5 x 18 cm
Publisher: E. Flammarion Éditeur.
...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$465 Sale Price
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Marie Laurencin, Untitled, from Les Biches, 1924
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph and pochoir by Marie Laurencin (1883–1956), titled Sans titre (Untitled), from the album Les Biches (The Does), originates from the 1924 edition published b...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
$2,796 Sale Price
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Alphonse Mucha Figures Decoratives Plate 30
Located in Dallas, TX
A framed Art Nouveau lithograph collotype poster by Alphone Mucha from 1905 representing the artist’s sketches of nudes, women and beautiful ladies in blues and white pigments on vel...
Category
Art Nouveau Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper
Ponte dei Baratteri, Venice
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching and drypoint on chine collé laid down to cream wove paper, 12 5/8 x 8 5/8 inches (318 x 217 mm), full margins. Signed, titled, and numbered 68/100 in pencil, lower margin. Th...
Category
French School Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Drypoint, Etching
Grossbauern
By Emil Nolde
Located in New York, NY
Etching and aquatint, 1918. Wide margins. Second state (of 2) with the darker toned background. Edition of approximately only 13 (in both the first and second states combined). Si...
Category
Expressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Erotic Scene - Héliogravure by Micheal Von Zichy - 1911
Located in Roma, IT
Erotic scene is an original Héliogravure artwork on ivory-colored paper, realized by Micheal Von Zichy in 1911. Printed in only 300 copies, Leipzig; ...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Engraving
$665 Sale Price
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The Print Shop
Located in Santa Monica, CA
GUSTAVE BAUMANN (1881 – 1971)
THE PRINT SHOP 1910 (Chamberlain 27)
Color woodcut signed in pencil. Unnumbed from an edition 100 as published in the
Hills o’ Brown Portfolio, (plate 11 of 12). Image 9 x 13 1/8, sheet 10 ¼ x 13 7/8 with
deckle edge at the bottom. The print portrays the Brown County...
Category
American Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Mythology : Grape Harvest with Faun and Centaur - Original wooodcut, Handsigned
Located in Paris, IDF
Honoré BROUTELLE (1866-1929)
Mythology : Grape Harvest with Faun and Centaur, 1921
Original woodcut
Handsigned in pencil
Numbered /125
On vellum 32.5 x 25.5 cm (c. 13 x 10 in)
Bears...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
La Perruque d
argent (Juffermans 6), Van Dongen, Kees van Dongen
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the album, Van Dongen, 1925. Published by Henri Floury, Paris; printed by Pierre Dumont, Pa...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$3,596 Sale Price
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Maternity : Mom
His Child - Original Lithograph Signed Plate - Delteil 50
Located in Paris, IDF
Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)
Maternity, 1910
Original lithograph
Signed in the plate
Edition of 100 copies
On China paper size c. 60 x 49 cm (c. 23.6 x 19.3 in)
In a beautiful ...
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Die Nacht (The Night), nude and cupids, German antique engraving
By Virgilio Tojetti
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Die Nacht'
(The Night)
German wood-engraving, 1903.
310mm by 230mm (image)
410mm by 280mm (sheet)
Category
Symbolist Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
La Danse
(Dance) — French Cubist Woodcut
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Raoul Dufy, 'La Danse' (Dance), woodcut, 1910. A proof impression before the second edition of 220 in 1953; with the estate stamp 'ATELIER RAOUL DUFY' in the lower right margin; the blind stamp 'GG' in the lower left sheet corner. Annotated 'E/Z' in pencil, beneath the estate stamp; and 'bois original' in the margin, lower left. Titled in the block, lower right. A superb, richly-inked impression, on heavy, cream wove paper; the full sheet with wide margins (3 1/2 to 6 3/4 inches); slight toning at the bottom and right sheet edges, well away from the image, otherwise in excellent condition. Archivally sleeved, unmatted.
Image size 12 5/16 x 12 1/2 inches (313 x 318 mm); sheet size 19 3/4 x 25 3/4 inches (502 x 654 mm).
Collections: Art Gallery of New South Wales (Australia), Brooklyn Museum, Cleveland Art Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Nasher Museum of Art (Duke University), Toledo Art Museum.
From the suite of four woodcuts entitled 'Les Plaisirs de la Paix' (The Pleasures of Peace), published by Éditions de La Sirène, Paris in 1926. The other three works in the series are 'La Peche' (Fishing), 'La Chase' (The Hunt), and 'L'amore' (Love). See our other listings for 'La Peche' and 'L'amore'.
Collections: Brooklyn Museum, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Cleveland Museum of Art, Dallas Museum of Art, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Minneapolis Art...
Category
Cubist Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Original "The American Red Cross is spending Ten Million" vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original American Red Cross vintage poster. Linen backed and ready to frame.
The Red Cross nurse warming thousands, feeding thousands, hea...
Category
American Impressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$398 Sale Price
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Fernand Leger, Objects in Space, from Cahiers d
Art, 1928 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph and pochoir after Fernand Leger (1881–1955), titled Objets dans l’espace (Objects in Space), from the album Fernand Leger (Fernand Leger), originates from t...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$2,396 Sale Price
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POLSTER (The Cushion)
By Max Kurzweil
Located in Santa Monica, CA
MAXIMILLIAN KURZWEIL (Austrian 1867-1916)
DER POLSTER / THE CUSHION, 1903. Color woodcut printed on laid japon paper, affixed as usual to a support sheet from its upper sheet edge...
Category
Vienna Secession Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
$1,800 Sale Price
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Leda and the Swan
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting a monumental original etching by French artist Albert Decaris. Decaris won many honors in France during his extensive career.
"Leda and the Swan", depicts the mythologi...
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Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Original Liqueur Menthe Pastille vintage French drink poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Liqueur Menthe Pastille antique French stone lithograph poster (E. Giffard distillateur) linen-backed in very good condition, ready to frame. Artist: Misti. Turn of the c...
Category
Art Nouveau Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,119 Sale Price
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Flowers
Located in PARIS, FR
Alphonse MUCHA (1860-1939)
"Flowers"
Variante 2
Rare original lithograph
Each flower, carnation, iris, lily and rose, is signed at the lower part of the plate "Mucha".
This lithogra...
Category
Art Nouveau Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper
Erotic Scene - Héliogravure by Micheal Von Zichy - 1911
Located in Roma, IT
Erotic scene is an original Héliogravure artwork on ivory-colored paper, realized by Micheal Von Zichy in 1911. Printed in only 300 copies, Leipzig; Privatdruck, from the Catalogue ...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Engraving
$665 Sale Price
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Villefranche-sur-mer
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching with drypoint in brownish black ink on cream wove paper, 6 1/8 x 10 inches (155 x 255 mm), full margins with a deckle edge. Signed in pencil, lower right margin, and titled (...
Category
American Realist Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Francois Auguste Rene Rodin, Untitled, from Twelve Watercolors, 1920 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Francois Auguste Rene Rodin (1840–1917), titled Sans titre (Untitled), from the folio Douze aquarelles de Auguste Rodin (Twelve Watercolors by Auguste...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
$1,756 Sale Price
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Steps to the Grand Canal, St. Mark
s in the distance, Venice.
Located in Middletown, NY
A lovely view of Venice from the water.
Etching with drypoint on antique cream laid paper with a large figural watermark, signed in pencil, lower right. 14 1/4 x 11 inches (362 x 280...
Category
American Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Drypoint, Etching
Sir Edwin Ray Lankester, Vanity Fair zoologist taxidermy caricature portrait
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'His religion is the worship of all sorts of winged and finny freaks'
Chromolithograph, 1905.
Vanity Fair portrait of of Sir Edwin Ray Lankester. KCB, FRS (1847 -1929) was an inve...
Category
Victorian Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Henri Matisse, Plume, from Drawings by Henri Matisse, 1925 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Henri Matisse (1869–1954), titled Plume (Feather), from the album Dessins de Henri-Matisse (Drawings by Henri Matisse), originates from the 1925 editi...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$956 Sale Price
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Original 1918 "Hey Fellows" American Library Association vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original poster: Hey Fellows! Your Money Brings this Book We Need When We Want It. Original World War 1 antique military poster created by...
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American Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Original Keep These Off The U.S.A., Buy Liberty Bonds vintage WW1 poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Keep These Off the U.S.A." buy more Liberty Bonds vintage World War One posters. Archival linen backed in excellent condition, ready to frame. The images shown are of the exact poster you will receive. Grade A- Artist: John Norton. Printed by The Strobridge Litho Co., Cincinnati & New York. Ref: Johnson 21, Rawls 214, Full-size paper, not trimmed 31" x 40.25" in size.
Bend right corner straightened during linen backing and tiny edge repair. Excellent bright colors. Clean, ready to frame.
This poster was part of the Committee on Public Information (CPI) 's broader propaganda campaign to rally American support for the war effort. It shows a pair of boots with red stains, showing blood dripping onto the ground. The German Adler is on the top of each boot and is shown wearing spurs.
The "Keep These Off the USA" poster was created during World War I as part of a broader American propaganda campaign to rally support for the war effort and demonize the enemy, particularly Germany. Propaganda posters...
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American Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Toy Horse Dance" Japanese Woodblock Triptych with Beauties and Mt Fuji
Located in Soquel, CA
"Toy Horse Dance" Japanese Woodblock Triptych with Beauties and Mt Fuji
Vibrant three-panel woodblock print by Utagawa Toyohiro (Japanese,...
Category
Edo Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Ink, Rice Paper, Woodcut
San Marco [Venice].
Located in Storrs, CT
William Walcot. R.E., R.I.B.A. San Marco. Etching with drypoint and aquatint. Dickins 66, Harvey-Lee 91. 3 7/8 x 5 7/8 (sheet 9 1/4 x 12 1/8). Venice set, # 2. Edition 415. A rich impression printed on cream wove paper. Fold in the margin, well outside the image; otherwise good condition. Signed in pencil. Housed in a 16 x 20-inch archival mat.
Soon after Walcot's arrival in England, the Fine Art Society sponsored a trip sent to Italy. This scene is one of four small drypoints that resulted from the artist’s stay in Venice.
When he was seventeen, he began to study architecture under Louis Benois at the Imperial Academy of Art in Saint Petersburg. He went to Paris where he continued his studies at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and the Atelier Redon. He practiced as an architect briefly in Moscow, designing the Hotel Metropole...
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Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint
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"Woman Leaning Forward" by Gustav Klimt - Original Print from Courtesans Folio
By Gustav Klimt
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Plate #3 from Gustav Klimt's 1907 "Dialogues of the Courtesans" portfolio, consisting of 15 collotypes on cream japon paper. The drawings in this folio are said to be studies for Klimt's well-known Water Serpents paintings...
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Vienna Secession Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper
Brandenburger Tor, Berlin (Brandenburg Gate, Berlin)
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Brandenburger Tor, Berlin (Brandenburg Gate, Berlin)". c1930 is a color etching on paper by Austrian artist Luigi Kasimir, 1881-1962. It is hand signed in pencil by the artist at the lower center. The plate mark (image) size is 13 x 16.5 inches, framed size is 23.75 x 27 inches. Custom framed in a wooden ornate gold frame, white beige matting and green color fillet. It is in excellent condition, the artwork is very slightly toned around the plate mark, barely visible.
About the artist.
Luigi Kasimir was born in 1881 at Pettau, today Ptuj, Slovenia, then a part of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. He inherited his talent from his ancestors; his grandfather was a painter and a poet, and his father an officer in the Habsburg army, who later became a professional painter. Kasimir attended the Vienna Academy of Art where he studied under Wilhelm Unger, who introduced him to the technique of the coloured etching, and also to his future wife, the artist Tanna Hoernes.[1] He died in 1962 in Grinzing, a suburb of Vienna.Kasimir was among the first to develop the technique of the coloured etching. Before this, prints were usually hand-coloured with the colour being applied in a casual, haphazard manner. Kasimir would first create a sketch usually in pastel, he then transferred the design on as many as four to six plates, printing one after the other and applying the colour on the plate, all done by hand.
Kasimir is mainly famous for his etchings, but he also produced some oil painting, as well as some pastels. One of his favourite genres was the landscape, or veduta. He demonstrated a predisposition street scenes, and tourist landmarks. He depicted places from all over Europe, mainly Italy, Austria, and Germany. He also travelled to the United States to do a series of etchings of famous sights ranging from urban landmarks such as New York City skyscrapers, to natural wonders like Yosemite Valley. Luigi Kasimir’s etchings...
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Realist Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Henri Matisse, Crayon, from Drawings by Henri Matisse, 1925 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Henri Matisse (1869–1954), titled Crayon (Crayon), from the album Dessins de Henri-Matisse (Drawings by Henri Matisse), originates from the 1925 editi...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$956 Sale Price
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Norman Rockwell "Family Tree" Lithograph
Located in New York, NY
Norman Rockwell (American, 1894-1978)
Family Tree
Original painting produced 1959, this print published 1959 in Japan by The Curtis Publishing Company
Lithograph
Sight: 19 1/4 x 13 3...
Category
American Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Paris : Parisian Club - Original Etching, 1927 (Juffermans #JE4)
Located in Paris, IDF
Kees VAN DONGEN (1877-1968)
Paris : Parisian Club, 1927
Original etching
Unsigned
Limited to 225 copies
On BFK Rives vellum 33 x 25 cm (c. 12.9 x 9.8 in)
REFERENCE : Catalogue ra...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Wien Opernring
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Wien Opernring" 1921, is a color etching by Austrian artist Luigi Kasimir 1881-1962. It is hand signed by the estate in pencil at the lower center. The plate mar...
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Realist Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Foul Rope (Left)
— Early American Southwest Rodeo
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
William Robinson Leigh, 'Foul Rope (Left)', etching, c. 1920, edition unknown but small. Signed in pencil and signed in the plate, lower left. A superb, richly-inked impression, in dark brown ink, on buff wove Umbria paper, the full sheet with margins (1 1/2 to 2 3/4 inches); slight toning at the sheet edges, otherwise in excellent condition. Very scarce. Archivally matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 14 7/8 x 11 15/16 inches (378 x 303 mm); sheet size 20 3/8 x 15 3/8 inches (518 x 391 mm).
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Born near Falling Waters, West Virginia, on a plantation a year after the Civil War and raised in Baltimore, William Robinson Leigh (1866 - 1955) became one of the foremost painters of the American West. His career spanning some seventy-five years, Leigh created some of the most iconic depictions of the Western landscape, with admirers referring to him as ‘The Sagebrush Rembrandt.’
The son of impoverished Southern aristocrats, Leigh received his first art training at age 14 from Hugh Newell at the Maryland Institute, where he was regarded as the best student in his class. From 1883 to 1895, he studied in Europe, mainly at the Royal Academy in Munich with Ludwig Loefftz. From 1891 to 1896, he painted six cycloramas or murals in the round, a giant German panorama.
In 1896, Leigh began working as a magazine illustrator for Scribner's and Collier's Weekly Magazine in New York City. He also painted portraits, landscapes, and genre scenes.
Leigh's trips to the Southwest began in 1906 when he agreed to paint the Grand Canyon with William Simpson, Santa Fe Railway advertising manager, in exchange for free transportation West. In 1907, he completed his Grand Canyon painting, which led to more commissions and an extensive painting trip through Arizona and New Mexico. These travels inspired him to paint western subjects for the next 50 years, and his primary interests were the Hopi and Navajo Indians.
In 1910, he traveled to Wyoming, where he painted in Yellowstone Park and created sketches, many of which he later converted into large canvases such as ‘Lower Falls of the Yellowstone’ (1915) and ‘Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone’ (1911).
In 1926, he traveled to Africa at the invitation of Carl Akeley for the American Museum of Natural History, and from this experience, wrote and illustrated 'Frontiers of Enchantment: An Artist's Adventures in Africa'. In 1933, he wrote and illustrated 'The Western Pony'. His adventures were chronicled in several popular magazines, including Life, the Saturday Evening Post, and Colliers.
For many years, Grand Central Art Galleries at the Biltmore Hotel handled his work exclusively in New York. In 1953, Leigh was elected an associate member of the National Academy of Design and became a full Academician in 1955.
In March 1999, the Historical Center of Cody, Wyoming, held an exhibition of his field sketches and finished works depicting his experiences near Cody early in the century. Between 1910 and 1921, when he often painted in the Carter Mountain vicinity, these years were considered pivotal to his artistic development and devotion to the Western landscape.
Leigh's work is held in many museum collections of American Western art...
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Realist Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
India Figurative Landscape 1910 Buddha Rare Early Original Etching
Located in Norfolk, GB
Ernest Stephen Lumsden RE, RSA
Ernest Stephen Lumsden RE, RSA
(1883 – 1948)
Buddha
Frame Size: 40.7cm x 52.5cm
Image: 21cm x 34 cm
Lumsden reference: 254
Edition 33/50
Whatman w...
Category
Other Art Style Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching
Decorative Motifs - Egyptian Styles - Chromolithograph by Andrea Alessio
Located in Roma, IT
Decorative Motifs - Egyptian Styles is a print on ivory-colored paper realized by Andrea Alessio in the early 20th Century. Signed on the plate on the lower.
Vintage Chromolithograp...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Tirez les Premiers, Messieurs les Français - Impressionist Woodcut by Raoul Dufy
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Long Island City, NY
Raoul Dufy, French (1877 - 1953) - Tirez les Premiers, Messieurs les Francais, Year: 1915, Medium: Woodcut and Pencil Drawing, signed, dated and numbered in pencil, Edition: 25/10...
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Graphite, Woodcut
"Sleeping Woman" by Gustav Klimt - Original Print from Courtesans Folio
By Gustav Klimt
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Plate #1 from Gustav Klimt's 1907 "Dialogues of the Courtesans" portfolio, consisting of 15 collotypes on cream japon paper. The drawings in this folio are said to be studies for Kli...
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Vienna Secession Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper
"End of Day" Original Limited Edition Etching
Located in Soquel, CA
"End of Day" Original Limited Edition Etching by John McGrath (Irish/American b.1884 d.1942).
This etching depicts a man with a tool slung over his shoulder walking along a path th...
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American Realist Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Ink, Drypoint, Etching
Original 1919, Give the World The Once Over in the United States Navy poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original 1919 Give The World The Once Over in the United States Navy vintage poster. Archival linen backed. This poster presents itself very fine condition. The lower text por...
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American Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Original
United Behind the Service Star
antique World War One vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original poster: United Behind The Service Star ; Great vibrant colors. Linen backed. All the various support organizations that backed up the soldiers and war relief during World War One. A-, B+ condition. Paper tear from the bottom about 10" professionally laid down. No paper loss.
A large blue star appears over the flags, and below the image reads "United Behind the Service Star". The poster features American soldiers carrying the flags of seven major service organizations: the YMCA, the National Catholic War Council, the Jewish Welfare Board, the Salvation Army, War Camp Community Service, the American Library Association, and the YWCA. These organizations were instrumental in providing various forms of support, such as food, medical care, and morale-boosting services, both to soldiers and civilians.
If you have ever looked to have a 'supreme' version of this great war poster...
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American Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Turmgasschen
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Turmgasschen" 1935 is an original color etching by Austrian artist Luigi Kasimir 1881-1962. It is hand signed in pencil at the lower center by the artist and titled in the plate. The plate mark (image) size is 15.5 x 10 inches, framed is 24.35 x 17.5 inches. It is custom framed in a dark wood frame, with light creme color matting and light brown filet. It is in very good condition, the frame have some scratches.
Luigi Kasimir was born in 1881 at Pettau, today Ptuj, Slovenia, then a part of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. He inherited his talent from his ancestors; his grandfather was a painter and a poet, and his father an officer in the Habsburg army, who later became a professional painter. Kasimir attended the Vienna Academy of Art where he studied under Wilhelm Unger, who introduced him to the technique of the coloured etching, and also to his future wife, the artist Tanna Hoernes.[1] He died in 1962 in Grinzing, a suburb of Vienna.Kasimir was among the first to develop the technique of the coloured etching. Before this, prints were usually hand-coloured with the colour being applied in a casual, haphazard manner. Kasimir would first create a sketch usually in pastel, he then transferred the design on as many as four to six plates, printing one after the other and applying the colour on the plate, all done by hand.
Kasimir is mainly famous for his etchings, but he also produced some oil painting, as well as some pastels. One of his favourite genres was the landscape, or veduta. He demonstrated a predisposition street scenes, and tourist landmarks. He depicted places from all over Europe, mainly Italy, Austria, and Germany. He also travelled to the United States to do a series of etchings of famous sights ranging from urban landmarks such as New York City skyscrapers, to natural wonders like Yosemite Valley. Luigi Kasimir’s etchings...
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Realist Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
The Whale
s Back [Connecticut]
By Kerr Eby
Located in Storrs, CT
The Whales Back. 1925. Etching. Giardina catalog 95 stateiii. Image: 6 1/2 x 12 (sheet 10 x 16). Trial proof, prior to the edition of 90. Illustrated in Fine Prints of the Year, 1927. A rich impression with plate tone printed on cream laid paper. Signed and annotated 'imp' (imprimit) in pencil, indicating a proof printed Eby.
The scene is probably Westport or Cos Cob, Connecticut.
The scene is probably Westport or Cos Cob, Connecticut.
Kerr Eby...
Category
American Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
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